Public Health

Biden Urged to Ramp Up Vaccination Effort as CDC Warns New, More Contagious Coronavirus Variant Could Soon Become Dominant in US

Hospitals across the U.S., like this one in Apple Valley, California, are overwhelmed with Covid-19 patients. (Photo: Ariana Drehsler/AFP via Getty Images)

Promised Vaccine Stockpile Doesn't Even Exist? Governors Demand Trump 'Answer Immediately for This Deception'

Kenny Stancil, staff writer

States "thought they were getting more doses and they planned for more doses and opened up to 65 and up, thinking they were getting more."

In Face of Trump Failures, Health Experts Welcome Biden's Choice to Take Over Covid-19 Vaccine Effort

Brett Wilkins, staff writer

Dr. David Kessler has been selected by President-elect Joe Biden to lead coronavirus vaccine efforts. (Photo: Brainstorm Health/Flickr/cc)

"The nation and the world need someone of Dr. Kessler's caliber to deal with...

'$2,000 Means $2,000': Ocasio-Cortez Says $1,400 Payments in Biden Plan Fall Short of Promised Relief

Jake Johnson, staff writer

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) speaks during a news conference outside of the Democratic National Headquarters in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, November 19, 2020.

"$2,000 does not mean $1,400."

Because 'Time for Urgent, Bold Change Is Now,' 200+ Groups Tell Biden to End Failed War on Drugs

To Combat Ongoing 'Human Rights Crisis,' 600+ Groups Urge Biden to Enact Utility Shutoff Moratorium on Day One

With Dire Assessment, Scientists Warn Humanity in Denial of Looming 'Collapse of Civilization as We Know It'

'About Damn Time': Cautious Optimism as Imminent Charges Reported for Michigan Ex-Officials Over Flint Water Crisis

After Positive Covid Test, Jayapal Demands Sergeant at Arms Remove GOP Lawmakers Who Refuse Masks

Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman Has Covid-19 After Hiding From Trump Mob With Maskless GOP Lawmakers

As US Sets Daily Record With 4,085 Dead From Covid-19, Governors Demand More Vaccine Doses

Nearly 4,000 Americans Died From Covid-19 on Wednesday as Trump Incited Anti-Democratic Insurrection

'Barbaric': Nebraska Governor Puts Undocumented Meatpackers at Back of Vaccine Line

New Study Reveals Flawed Predictions of Runaway Costs and Usage Under Medicare for All

'This Must Be Undone': Trump EPA Finalizes Anti-Science Rule to Limit Use of Public Health Research

Chicago Teachers Union Members Take Stand Against Unsafe School Conditions

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Toxic Hot Seat: Your House Is (Still) Full of Poison

Called "horrifying, infuriating, compelling and hopeful," a new documentary Toxic Hot Seat explores the chemical flame retardants - equally likely to cause cancer and not to work - that are everywhere in our lives and houses, and the massive lobbying efforts of chemical manufacturers and Big Tobacco that put them there. With a new Give Toxics the Boot! campaign. "The average American baby is born with 10 fingers, 10 toes and the highest recorded levels of flame retardants among infants in the...